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New York - The escalating build-outs of 3.5G and 4G mobile networks will continue to propel the point-to-point microwave industry as radio shipments with higher capacities will become the norm, a new report from Visant Strategies finds. "Growth in PTP shipments is being driven by deployment and preparation for...

The Antenna Applications Symposium and its predecessor, the Air Force Antenna R&D Symposium, have for fifty years provided a unique forum for exchange of ideas and information about the practical aspects of antenna design, development, and use in systems. The Antenna Applications Symposium emphasizes antenna design and application to...

Filtronic PLC has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Defence Electronics business to Teledyne Ltd. , a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies., for £13.0 M (on a cash free debt free basis). The Defence Electronics business designs and manufactures customized radio frequency, microwave and millimeter-wave components and subsystems for...

Harris Stratex Networks has opened its newest office in Sydney, Australia. The company will supply operators with cost-effective wireless transport solutions to enable customers to transport high-speed, carrier-class Ethernet data, alongside traditional TDM traffic, to support network migration to next-generation IP services. Harris Stratex will also be able to...

TDK Corp. , a leading electronics company headquartered in Japan, and EPCOS AG , a leading manufacturer of electronic components, modules and systems headquartered in Germany, have signed a Business Combination Agreement (BCA). The purpose of the agreement is to combine EPCOS with TDK’s activities in the electronic components...

The “smart metering” that communicates electric, gas or water usage data over a network to the providing utility is making inroads in some markets, but a further evolution of these technologies into “Home Area Networks” (HAN) will allow utilities greater management efficiencies while providing customers with choices about their...

Microwave and millimeter-wave high power vacuum electron devices (VED) represent a modern technological continuation of one of the original and basic building blocks of RF electronics technology. Based on original vacuum tube principles that date from the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, these present-day incarnations couple modern...

China’s GPS phone market grew rapidly in 2007, and GPS phones, along with music and camera phones, are the brightest spots in the nation’s mobile phone market overall, reports In-Stat. A number of major handset manufacturers have entered the GPS phone market, although cautiously and with a limited number...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has transferred all activities involved in the operation and exploitation of the European share of the International Space Station (ISS) to Astrium as prime industrial contractor. The two parties have concluded a service agreement to this effect for a fixed price of €278 M,...